Held at the Minneapolis Convention Center, this year’s event – which was also a celebration of the PF’s 30th anniversary as a conservation organization, drew over 28,000 attendees.

Attendees visited with hundreds of hunting and conservation related exhibitors and vendors, and attended seminars on topics ranging from bird dog training and habitat management to wild game cooking and shooting techniques and equipment. Rudy’s Youth Village offered kids a chance to learn about the outdoors and conservation through hands-on activities.

For more information on Pheasants Forever and next year’s National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic, visit www.pheasantsforever.org.

Residents of Trenton report that coyotes are roaming the streets of the state capital at night. So many have made Princeton their home that the town debated, but ultimately dismissed, the idea of hiring sharpshooters to cull the population.

Illinois hunters see Gov. Bruce Rauner as a potential new ally as they eye legislation that includes measures to ban the use of drones to track wildlife, allow silencers at gun ranges, expand coyote hunting to crossbows and resurrect a bobcat hunting season.

Picking landmarks and planning your approach should be a sophisticated process – much more than a casual glance through the binos. The more time you spend carefully choosing landmarks, the more successful your stalk will be.

A big part of the NWTF show every year is the Youth Grand National Turkey Calling Championships. Throngs of young turkey callers took to the stage in three divisions with dreams of being crowned a world champion.

Kansas is moving toward removing what some gun-rights advocates see as its last major restriction on firearms, with the state Senate debating a bill to end a requirement for permits to carry concealed weapons.

Geese, ducks and other birds are usually the problem. But, recently it was wildlife of another sort. It took an hour before crews chased down a coyote that was wandering across the runways and killed it.

The survey focuses on animals taken by professional trappers in several counties near Augusta; on tracts across the Savannah River in South Carolina; and from the coastal plains south of Auburn, Alabama.

Samuel Ives was mauled by a black bear during a 2007 Father's Day camping trip in American Fork Canyon. The family said authorities failed to warn people about the bear after it attacked other campers.

Forget what you thought you knew about Martin Archery. Iconic as the name may be to bowhunters, everything is new at Martin – new personnel, new philosophy and new bow lines designed virtually from scratch.

Advisory councils in nine Wisconsin counties whose deer are threatened by chronic wasting disease have recommended growing or maintaining their herds despite the advice of scientists who say that shrinking a herd is the best way to control the disease's spread.